Way later than I ever wanted too, last week I published SOURCE issue 4. It’s got three tutorials, one on GNU Radio where we step through building an FM radio receiver using a perilously cheap Realtek SDR dongle, it has a walk through orientation tutorial for NASA’s Open Vehicle Sketch Pad (OpenVSP) which is a really powerful open source tool for designing and testing things that fly. It’s rounded out with a small tutorial on reverse engineering mesh files in FreeCAD using an up and coming community workbench called Detessellate.
The other thing people may have noticed since issue 3 of SOURCE is that it now has it’s own super minimal website. This is totally down to a lovely local to me chap, Luke Farrar, who quickly threw his amazing skills at setting it up. It’s served from Github pages an auto-generates the page when I push a new issue in the repository. It’s really lovely, and it is a great solution for SOURCE.
When I first started SOURCE I publicly committed to doing 4 issues and obviously that leaves the question now that 4 are done, what next? Well. I am going to continue, I enjoy the community responses and I’ve had a few people contact me about how it’s been useful. In the last week a lovely blogpost on the GNU Radio News site appeared being really supportive of SOURCE and, brilliantly, someone on Mastodon told me that because of SOURCE issue 3 they were planning to register a hardware design with OSHWA. These are the outcomes I dig very much. I’ve also had a small amount of donations. This is definitely not the main driver (In each issue I say that if you can’t donate then you are welcome to SOURCE and much solidarity to you) but it’s nice to see people moved to support.
So yep. I have some plans for ISSUE 5! Hopefully a few bits of content that are totally different to what's come before, but also, some solid tutorial content supporting brilliant open source projects.
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